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Tom, I grew up at 1621 Gildersleeve @ Harding Park. from your article, I know much more information about the HARDING PARK and I am fairly willing to visit it one day! In this deed, the land is described as a cetaine Parcell of Land, contained within a neck, commonly called and knowne by ye name of Cornells Neck, lying and being upon the Maine, toward the Sound or East River, being bounded to the West by a certain Rivolett which runs to the Black Rock and so into Bronckse Creeke or Kill. Having previously chronicled other prominent points of land in the city, I followed Soundview Avenue to its tip. Today, Clason Point is a quiet residential neighborhood in the southeastern Bronx that is home to about 25,000 residents. [18]:12, Eighty-three percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is less than the city's average of 87%. In Clason Point and Parkchester, 28% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, more than the citywide average of 20%. Gildersleeve Ave, a stones throw from the By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent. lived on Randall ave from 1957 to 1970 as well. [4] In the 1640s a series of skirmishes between the Cornells and the Siwanoy, known as the Pig Wars, were led by Chief Wampage, the Siwanoy sachem believed to be the Indigenous leader who killed Anne Hutchinson and her children in 1643 at Split Rock, now in the northern Bronx. Was a great upbringing. Sergey Kadinsky is the author ofHidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs(2016, Countryman Press) and the webmaster ofHidden Waters Blog. Learn how your comment data is processed. [18]:13 For every supermarket in Clason Point and Parkchester, there are 13 bodegas. The following is syndicated with permission from Forgotten NY. Undeveloped waterfront parcels wereacquired by the city for parkland but kept in a natural state. I enjoyed reading about Clason Point. [18]:13 In Clason Point and Parkchester, 32% of residents are obese, 16% are diabetic, and 34% have high blood pressurecompared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. The completion of the nearby Whitestone Bridge put the ferry out of business. I went to the emptly lot there with my friend and dug a hole looking for any traces. Britisher Thomas Pell arrived at a treaty in 1654 with several Siwanoy sachems, including Wampage, that the Dutch authorities didnt recognize. I and a friend had some wonderful teenage years in the 50s being members of Shorehaven Beach Club. - All Day I Dream of Travel, The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano. [18]:7. He showed me many arrowheads he found near Pugsley Creek and took me there. [18]:14, The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Clason Point and Parkchester is 0.0076 milligrams per cubic metre (7.6109oz/cuft), more than the city average. Please email me . Situated on the rocky shores of the wild Lake Superior, Whitefish Point has long been considered the Graveyard of the Great Lakes. Shore Haven: I remember it well. Iwould like to see every major street have a monument and plaza at its terminus, but the southern tip of White Plains Road is marked by a fence that keeps it a few yards short of the East River. Chapter Three: The Clason Point Experiment vandal-resistant, and inevitably, uglier materials to replace them. In September1638 Thomas Cornhill was licensed upon tryal to keepe an Inn. A couple of years ago I discovered Dave Valentine, a Latin Jazz musician lived in Harding Park for many years. was not to smart. Its namesake city is 10 miles north of the city line. I remember you Henry, and your brother Richard and sister Loretta. Between 1906 and 1939, a ferry operated between Clason Point and College Point. I do remember my mother telling me about the accident at the amusement park. I went steady with John from 1971 to 1977 but never married. This act was done, some historians believe, in retaliation for New Netherland governor Willem Kiefts February massacres of refugee Weekwaeskeek at Corlaers Hook and Pavonia in todays New Jersey. The 2018 addition of the NYC Soundview ferry and the recent service expansion to Throgs Neck is ushering in new residents, drawn by the neighborhoods tranquility, affordability, and accessibility to Manhattan. Across the East River you can explore the northern shoreline of Queens and see the palatial homes of Malba. We lived on Newman Ave in the 60s in a house my great grandfather built down near the corner of Patterson, Families like the Nichols, the Potulins, the Stecks, the Heaters all with kids running in the streets until the lights came on or scavenging down in the old boat yard which became a dump with the firemens training pit. Ill pass by again sometime and bring pictures of what the house I lived in looked like to the beautiful people I met yesterday. [11] White flight occurred in the area through the mid-20th century. I worked summers at Castle Hill Beach Club for 5 years ( 61 thru 66) . There were ferryboat and steamer excursions from Clason Point to downtown Manhattan and a local service to College Point, Queens. I remember her teaching us to swim at the beach down the road from our house. [35] As of 2018[update], with a non-fatal assault rate of 100 per 100,000 people, Clason Point and Parkchester's rate of violent crimes per capita is more than that of the city as a whole. That was the only time I had a doggy TORO. [8]:113 The club was purchased by Soundview Associates, an investment group including Sylvester Stallone, in 1986. Harding Park is the maze of little unnamed streets and bungalows found along Bronx River, Leland, Gildersleeve and Cornell Avenues in the southwest sector of Clason Point. Europeans began settling the region in the early 1600s, and the Cornell family built the first permanent European settlement in the spit of land first known as Snakipins by the Indians, then Cornells Neck and later Clason Point. My Mom would love to know we may have finally found you again. Thanks! [18]:10, The nearest hospital campuses are Montefiore Medical Center's Westchester Square and West Farms campuses, as well as Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center's Longwood campus. First house on the right. WISH YOU ALL GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LIVES, Hi. Every spring, proceeds from the Kips Bay Decorator Show House benefit this center, which has the areas only ice rink. I was accompanied by my daughter and bestie, it was great sharing some special memories with them from decades ago. In the background are theHunts Point Marketand the skyline of Manhattan. In 2018, 72% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," lower than the city's average of 78%. Clason Point wasnt always the unfamiliar enclave that it is, in large part, today. Great read! An odd pair as Lincoln emancipated the slaves while Wilson was a staunch segregationist. The residents did not want to see them vandalized. He probably died in 1655. I remember as a kid, the hill you called Farmers Hill. , we were only 9,10, or 11. room. Hi Muriel, Also..Funland.the batting rangethe driving range both on Bruckner Blvd. My mom bought the house on Pugsley Ave from Mr. Nelson who built it (1946-470 and lived next door. My mother had a large group of women friends who played Canasta. His proposal was defeated by local residents. Memories of Shorehaven survive online, with former member Marc Miller compiling a collage of old photos for the Shorehaven Beach Club Facebook group. Kevin Walsh was here in 2006, telling the story of Harding Park in detail. Hello Rocky and Debbie, What a lovely little article to find and see your comments. The latter, alluding to the Wilson administration's role in World War I and the Treaty of Versailles peace agreement, reads, "That the world may be made . So it want so wonderful for those of us looking in from the outside. This includes a scenic traffic circle as a terminus for Soundview Avenue with vistas of the East River andWhitestone Bridge. I remember the creek going to Lacombe Ave. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. I enjoyed this trip down memory lane. 107 and then JHS 123. the people hated the giant bull frogs that inhabited the marsh they were so loud people could not sleep. The accident happened in Clason Point, where an amusement park used to stand with a 100-foot Ferris wheel as one of the main attractions. Originally it was a tent on a platform that they spent summers in. Coastal pollution, declining attendance, the Great Depression, and construction from the Whitestone Bridge ultimately shuttered the park for good. From Jackson Heights, NY, Queens 94 min Thomas Cornell came to America about 1633 with his wife and most, if not all, of his children. around or someone knows them and how to get in touch. Wow what a wonderful childhood I had! Eventually they moved in year round. It is racially diverse and has a mixture of moderate single family homes, low income buildings and expensive condominiums. Getting laid at Black Rock! The SEACOR Power capsized during a severe squall shortly after departing Port Fourchon, Louisiana on April 13 with 19 people on board. Sketching Henderson Place [SpliceToday] A trolley line runs down Soundview Avenue, but Bronx River Parkway has not yet been extended to this corner of the Bronx. If you never knew it was there, the sleepy []. NIGHT BINGO.And taking them down all for 50 cents a week big $ then..me and Eugene Mc Carthy, His dad was in Charge of Bingo set up. Its very, very odd. So we dug some holes in the empty field there as part of my university research program and found some old oyster shells. Pat (Haughey) MacInnes. Developers Mal Deitch and Joseph Goodstein transformed the defunct Clason Point Bathing and Amusement Park, into an upscale private resort with a swimming pool, cabanas, playground, and a performance space that hosted live entertainment. New Yorks Theme Streets [SpliceToday] Thank you to all our donors that continue to support Forgotten NY. parents stayed on for 35 years.I road the trolley from Gildersleeve straight up Soundview to Westchester Ave.My mother shopped at Paleys and our property was adjacent to Glens Estate.I remember the night baseball games iin thefield where my cousin was picked up by the Boston Red Socks.The homes on stilts at the tip of the Point; My uncle rented a stool at Gleasons. Future plans in accordance with PlaNYC initiatives will create an urban oasis in this dense community; complete with recreation nodes, Greenway connections, bike/hike trails, designated fishing areas, a boat launch, and esplanades with skyline views. Destination signs along the southbound parkway show Soundview Park as its terminus. Italian and Germans. Like. cows down Soundview Avenue on a hill next to the intersection with Lafayette Avenue? Returning to Soundview Avenue, there is a gated community with its own set of nautical theme streets: Admiral Court, Beacon Lane, Surf Drive, etc. I think his address was 507 Harding Park their names were Ella and Thomas Tierney ,he had a vegetable garden in the lot across the from his house,great memories . I remember Louie Garza. Wow what a trip. Dead-end streets disappear into the tangle of vegetation at Harding Park. +91 99094 91629; info@sentinelinfotech.com; Mon. Your old Hagstrom map wont help you here as many of the streets on the grid were never completed, end midblock, and others appear partially completed. Manhattan appears as a far-off promise to the fishers working the East River. In 1949, Mal Deitch and Joseph Goodstein transformed the defunct Clason Point Bathing and Amusement Park, into a private resort with a swimming pool, cabanas, playground, and a stage. We lived there, played there, worshipped there and were all family to each otheir. The park has a tragic history with 6 deaths and 22 injured on June 11, 1922, when a storm blew down an operating ferris wheel. The Bruckner Expressway which now bisects the area along the center was once known as Ludlow Avenue. As an amusement park, Clason Point was linked to the city by a ferry, competing for patrons with the North Beach Amusement Park across the East River, and Starlight Park on the Bronx River. Alan. I remember cisterns deep into the ground to collect irregation water. We owned our houses, bug not the land they were onIn the late 1950s, Shorehaven bought the land and told us to moveWe fought but lostMiss my old neighborhood, I lived in a houseboat on Pugsleys creek. From the late 1880s to around 1935, the neighborhood was a major tourist attraction and home to a massive amusement district, complete with arcades, dancehalls, waterfront resorts, and a massive outdoor saltwater swimming pool known as The Inkwell due to its dirty, unfiltered water that came straight from the East River. My aunt and uncle lived there and I recall such fond memories of visiting them there. This is the 57-acre Shorehaven community, set apart from the rest of southern Bronx by its wall and security guards. He had a collection of arrowheads he found near Pugsley Creek. The houses were different now . Regards The name sounds familiar. I went to PS69 for kindergarten 72-73 school year I think and I had Ms Kulusky. 69. This disagreement was rendered moot in 1664 when the British fleet appeared in the harbor and the Dutch capitulated. This web site brought back nice memories of a happy times in my childhood the neighborhood had so many children. Soundview, Castle Hill, Clason Point, Harding Park, Pugsley's Creek, Unionport. If you remember those chairs Adirondack chairs in the off season I remember him painting every one bright red, blue, green and white.Life guards would put on shows of diving and She enjoyed seeing her old stomping grounds (she lived on 1411 Harding Park in Clason Point in the 30s-40s). I lived at 311 from 1952 till I got married in 1970. In ancient times, the Bronx River area to the West was known to the Siwanoys, who spoke Algonquian,[4] as "Aquahung". A hypothetical resident of the planet Pluto, observing the bright dot in what must be a perpetually pitch black Plutonian sky, would have no idea, unless his race had mastered astronomy, that the especially bright dot was in fact the sun around which his planet orbited; similarly, if you were kidnapped, blindfolded and stuffed in a car trunk and dumped in Harding Park, would you have any idea that these distant towers were in the same town as the one where you stand? Based on this calculation, as of 2018[update], Clason Point and Parkchester are considered low-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying. Six crew members were recovered safely following the accident . Soundview Houses; thirteen 7-story buildings. Bayside Hills [SpliceToday] Dead-end streets disappear into the tangle of vegetation at Harding Park. I also recall the parents of my friend playing bocci and horsehoes in the fields near the Academy Gardens. Thanks for sharing Betty. Clason Point once boasted an amusement pier said to rival Coney Island, according to an area historian, Arthur Seifert, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 70 years. Here you can also take theNYCFerryat the cost of a subway ride down to the Upper East Side, 34thStreet, and Wall Street. We moved from the apartment in 1952. You have 4 brothers: George,Buddy,Walter and Robert. This is where the Bronx River widens into the East River. I havent been to Soundview since high school, whenmy classmate Karenhosted friends at her home and there was Dominican music in the background. I remember my grandma living there with us too and how much fun it was to play in the backyard with all my friends. The area was then renamed Clason Point after Isaac Clason, a Scottish merchant and a major land owner. Thank you for the article. Welcome to the Clason Point google satellite map! When in university I did a report on the Siwanoy Indians who lived in Clason Point. Hi Sandy, my mom, Anne Nestler was baptized at Kanes almost 97 years ago. Again a great read! The neighborhood contains one of the highest concentrations of NYCHA projects in the Bronx. *Nothing to do with the heir to the Addams Family fortune played by Ken Weatherwax; this was a Talman Pugsley, who owned land here in the late 1700s. watching two full length movies and cartoons. Its World War One monument was dedicated in 1928 on the decade anniversary since the end of the war. The most notable of these triangular parklets is Woodrow Wilson Triangle, bound by Underhill, Patterson, and Soundview Avenues. Actually, it was Arthur Godfreys boat that burned during the Wheeler Boatyard fire. One of the great unfinished waterfront roads here is Bronx River Road, which was intended to run continuously from East Tremont Avenue along the east bank of Bronx River down to the tip of Clason Point. Harding Park. Clason Point was named after Isaac Clason, a Scottish merchant and a major land owner. The neighborhood's northern and eastern borders have a heavy concentration of commercial establishments. Today, the site is home to a 57-acre gated condominium community known as Shorehaven, that maintains a resort-style feel and offers residents an outdoor swimming pool and several amenity spaces. Searchers have found a long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. Mapping and Location: Central Alaska 66 30 N 152 53 W. Source: Shipwrecks of the Alaskan Shelf and Shore (1992) CITY OF SEATTLE (1979) The 84 foot crab fishing vessel City of Seattle split a seam and foundered April 7, 1979 in the Gulf of Alaska 80 miles south of Yakutat. Clason Point Military Academy. Love this! I Lived in Harding Park when my children were in their teenage years. Swimming under the houses built on stilts.and of course you would swIm as fast as you possibly could when you would hear the toilet flush through an ope pipe! In 1949, Mal Deitch and Joseph Goodstein transformed the defunct Clason Point Bathing and Amusement Park, into a private resort with a swimming pool, cabanas, playground, and a stage. Today I did. 224. I recall the square dancing on Wednesday nights and social dancing on Saturday nights. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: Lafayette Avenue to the north, White Plains Road/Pugsley Creek Park to the east, the East River to the south, and the Bronx River to the west. [4] 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. Went to Holy Cross School. Also..pheasants flying there part of the year. [18]:11 Clason Point and Parkchester has a relatively average population of residents who are uninsured. I left in 1968 to raise a family of my own but went back on a regular basis until my parents sold the apartment house only one there, all the others were private homes. 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